IMPERIAL UNION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8288, 16 November 1906, Page 5

IMPERIAL UNION.

AN INTERESTING PAPER. Received Novembei 15, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, November 14. Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, a noted British scholar, read a paper on "Imperial.Union" at the Colonial Institute. He suggested develvoping a soheme based upon noma close form of international alliance between the colonies and the Motherland, by means of frequent consumptions and conferences,. and the appointment of ambassadors. In the disouHsion tha 4 ; followed, Sir Frederick Poiloak suggested the term "partnership" might be substituted for "alliance." Sir Frederick Young agreed. He predicted that federation in its true sense would ultimately be realised. Commenting on the Bnggestlon, the Morning Post states that a conference of National Government, theoretically always in session, woold reduoe delays and blunders to a minimum, dnd confirm the sentiment, pf racial unity; but if the Empire was destined to remain in reality some community of material interests mast blend the nations in an alliance. The Standard considers that the evolution of an Imperial Council, with control of foreign relatioua, must proceed automatically with the growth of the machinery for Imperial defunae and Imperial preference.